Trucker Attacked by Mob on I-35 Was Delivering Fuel to Black-Owned Business (VIDEO)

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It was an indelible image, etched in my young brain, that I wished I had not seen. Watching the nightly news with my parents on April 29, 1992, I, along with millions of others, witnessed Reginald Denny being dragged out of his truck at a Los Angeles intersection and beaten in an unspeakable manner in retaliation for the Rodney King beating. I never thought I’d see something like that again outside a place like the Middle East, but here we are again, staring down the barrel of unbridled anarchy.

Are fundamental rights so contorted that rioters now have the right to block streets and freeways too, demand that anyone stop for them, and then beat them out of their cars? And then the innocent drivers are the ones who get in trouble, not the murderous mobs?

Evidently, motorists are going to need a new app that shows them where riots are taking place. Otherwise, if police have not already blocked off the street, they could be confronted with a choice between continuing to move and potentially running over the people obstinately blocking their way, or stop and wait for the rioters to drag them out of the cars and hope they leave a heart still beating.

Bogdan Vechirko was just back from delivering fuel from his tanker truck when he was suddenly confronted by a huge violent mob blocking the bridge on I-35 west, the major interstate out of Minneapolis. Who would ever have thought police would stand back and allow rioters to block a freeway? Yet as the chaotic event played out on Sunday, people initially thought this was a man on a murderous rampage to kill the saintly “protesters.” He actually wound up stopping to avoid hitting people, even though he was unaware of what was going on, and was dragged out of his truck and beaten. Then he was arrested by Hennepin County police. To my knowledge, nobody who beat him was arrested.

A black business owner named Lonnie tweeted out the following on Sunday afternoon, which shed light on what really happened:

The name of this business owner is Lonnie McQuirten of 36 Lyn Refuel Station in Minneapolis. He recently testified before a state senate committee on delaying property taxes during coronavirus.

Here is the description of the situation according to John Harrington, the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety.

“We do have some info that he was speeding,” explained Harrington. “We do have some info that he saw the crowd and initially he panicked and he just kept barreling forward.

“Then he saw a young woman on a bike fall down in front of him and he slammed on the brakes. And he slid until the vehicle stopped.”

It turns out the barricades were not yet up to block people from going westbound onto that bridge, and the driver was in the wrong place at the wrong time. His only crime was driving too fast on what he thought was an empty highway.

“We know that the driver of the tanker truck was on the freeway already. He was on 94 already and he turned onto 35 before we got barricades or trucks there to block off his access to 35. This was his second run of the day. He was running empty, there was no fuel in that tanker truck,” said Harrington.

Is this what is confronting ordinary Americans now? Because one policeman killed a man who happened to be black, that now allows anyone to block freeways and beat motorists?

According to local media, “Gov. Tim Walz said the driver, 35-year-old Bogdan Vechirko, “feels incredibly lucky that he did not kill someone,” adding that even though he was assaulted after stopping the 18-wheeler he “is really lucky Minnesota showed some of their better angels and he did not get killed.”

Wow, thanks for showing such grace. A world upside down when people are free to riot on freeways and you forfeit your life if you are unaware of the riot, while those breaking the law have the right to kill you, unless of course they show “better angels” and only beat you. This is the worldview of people like Governor Walz.

This is a growing trend happening everywhere. We’ve seen a female shop owner savagely beaten in Rochester, New York, another business owner in Dallas nearly killed after a gruesome beating, and another one in Columbia, South Carolina, knocked unconscious. Why do these people have the right to block roads and even highways, and how are innocent people supposed to know where they are going to attack next before police have a chance to block off the roads, rather than shut down the illegal riot altogether?

Vechirko was lucky that he was not severely beaten, but other business owners and innocent bystanders have not been so lucky. The grisly images of rioters surrounding motorists and breaking into the cars must spur our government into action. Has self-defense now been outlawed as well to please the media gods of racial politics?

Obviously, we don’t want people purposely trying to run over the rioters, but are we going to flip the script of criminal and victim – right to move freely vs. nonexistent “right” to riot – on its head and force innocent motorists into gruesome beatdowns?

A trucker in Tulsa who didn’t want to suffer this fate drove past a “checkpoint” set up by rioters blocking I-244 and was questioned by police after two rioters were injured when he sped off. He was released because he did nothing wrong but save his own life. The media is making rioters out to be the victims and the trucker out to be a murderer.

Here is the way the Tulsa World described the incident:

The crowd let a car driven by a black female pass through and the pickup attempted to follow the car. Protesters blocked the driver’s path, and the man then placed a handgun on his dashboard, Simons said. That angered protesters, who began throwing water bottles at the vehicle.

The driver then accelerated through the crowd, said Simons, who was standing near the vehicle when it happened.

“It was fast enough that I felt like I had to run,” Simons said. “Everybody felt like they had to run. People scattered.”

How dare he try to fight back? Doesn’t he know he was told to stop by the new road patrol? He didn’t have the right color of skin, evidently, like the motorist in front of him, and should have taken his beating like a man!

As of now, nobody has been charged in Minneapolis for beating Vechirko, and Vechirko himself appears to still be in custody, although that might be for his protection, which in itself is very disquieting.

This is truly a sorry and dangerous state of affairs. Rather than making individuals responsible for their actions, we are coddling criminals because of the race of one victim of a bad cop. That bad cop has now been charged with murder in a very swift indictment. Now it’s time for justice against the rioters who have beaten, killed, looted, vandalized, and obstructed our free movement. (For more from the author of “Trucker Attacked by Mob on I-35 Was Delivering Fuel to Black-Owned Business” please click HERE)

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WATCH: Rioters Set Historic Church Ablaze Near the White House; President Trump Mobilizes U.S. Military to End Unprecedented Riots; 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force Headed to D.C.

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By Townhall. The mayhem in D.C., it seems, began in full force at Lafayette Park, not far from the White House. Demonstrators jumped the gated barrier, forcing park police to move forward and try to push individuals back.

The night only devolved from there. One of the most devastating scenes of destruction in D.C. has to be the fire at St. John’s Episcopal Church on H Street, which has stood in D.C. since 1816. Just how historic is it? Every president since James Madison has worshipped there at some point. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. But rioters, it appears, lit the church on fire Sunday, and the inferno was captured on camera by Fox News reporter Kevin Corke.

(Read more from “Rioters Set Historic Church Ablaze Near the White House” HERE)

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Trump Mobilizes U.S. Military to End Unprecedented Riots

By New York Post. President Trump on Monday invoked a law from 1807 allowing him to send military forces to states rocked by unrest over the death of George Floyd in a sudden White House Rose Garden address interrupted by the sounds of protestors being cleared out by police nearby.

“We cannot allow the righteous cries of peaceful protesters to be drowned out by an angry mob,” Trump said, declaring himself the “president of law and order” while blaming extremist groups such as Antifa for the unrest.

“I am mobilizing all available federal resources, civilian and military, to stop rioting and looting, to end the destruction,” he said, immediately mobilizing the Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows him to deploy troops anywhere across the nation.

It was last used in 1992, by President George H.W. Bush to quell the LA riots, which were sparked by the police beating of Rodney King.

“If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” Trump said of the act. (Read more from “Trump Mobilizes U.S. Military to End Unprecedented Riots” HERE)

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82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force Headed to D.C. Amid Riots

By Breitbart. The Pentagon has ordered the 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force to deploy to the D.C.-area amid rioting across the nation, according to multiple sources on background.

The force is the same one that deployed earlier this year to quell violent Iran-backed protests in Iraq. Sources told Breitbart News earlier on Monday that the forces were preparing their gear to deploy, but Pentagon officials would not confirm.

A source also told Breitbart News that the 16th Military Police Brigade from Fort Bragg was also headed to D.C.

The deployments to D.C. comes after rioters looted stores, defaced national monuments, and burned a historic church a block from the White House.

Trump during a press conference on Monday announced he was dispatching military units in response to the riots.

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WATCH: George Floyd’s Son Calls for End to Violence; Trump: ‘Angry Mob’ Must Not Drown out ‘Righteous Cries of Peaceful Protesters’

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By Jarrett Stepman. The death of a black man, George Floyd, at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25 has sparked protests around the country. It was an ugly incident and appeared to be a terrible injustice.

Regrettably, we’re now seeing violence and riots occurring in big cities across the country, in which public and private property is being destroyed and other people have been injured or killed. . .

“Tearing up things, it’s not going to solve anything,” Floyd’s son, Quincy Mason Floyd, said, according to Chicago’s WGN-TV. “My dad is in peace, and we have to be the ones to deal with all this stress. It’s going to be tough to get over this day by day.” . . .

Again, it’s important to note that Floyd’s family—those most affected by his death—have been aggressively urging people to avoid violence.

Floyd’s younger brother, Terrence Floyd, has been pleading with protesters to avoid what’s become violence and mayhem in many of America’s cities. (Read more from “George Floyd’s Son Calls for End to Violence” HERE)

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Trump: ‘Angry Mob’ Must Not Drown out ‘Righteous Cries of Peaceful Protesters’

By Fred Lucas. President Donald Trump announced the deployment of the military to help quell the violent riots in Washington, D.C., and said he would send federal troops to states to restore order if governors didn’t act. . .

The president also spoke about the need for justice after the police killing of George Floyd, 46, during his arrest in Minneapolis on Memorial Day evening.

In response to Floyd’s death, peaceful protests in Minneapolis turned to violent riots, which spread across the United States, even as peaceful protests also continued.

“All Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd,” said Trump, who spoke last week with Floyd’s family members. “My administration is committed that for George Floyd and his family, justice will be served. He will not have died in vain.”

. . .“We cannot allow the righteous cries of peaceful protesters to be drowned out by an angry mob,” Trump said. (Read more from “Trump: ‘Angry Mob’ Must Not Drown out ‘Righteous Cries of Peaceful Protesters’” HERE)

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Biden Staff Caught Donating to Group Paying Bail for Rioters

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Staffers for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that they have donated to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis as riots over the death of George Floyd consume the city.

At least 13 Biden campaign staffers wrote on Twitter on Friday and Saturday that they have donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which says it supports the protesters.

The group opposes cash bail and says it “pays criminal bail and immigration bond for those who cannot afford to as we seek to end discriminatory, coercive, and oppressive jailing,” according to its website.

“We are in awe of the support coming through right now,” the group stated.

Biden opposes cash bail as a “modern day debtors prison,” the presumptive Democratic nominee’s campaign spokesman Andrew Bates told Reuters. (Read more from “Biden Staff Caught Donating to Group Paying Bail for Rioters” HERE)

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Police: ‘Stashes’ of Bricks Staged Near Protests Were ‘to Be Used During a Riot’; Ex-Secret Service Agent: Riots Are ‘Sophisticated Insurrection’ by Antifa

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By Daily Caller. The Kansas City police department said Sunday that officers found bricks and rocks staged near protest sites around the city, stoking concerns that individuals or groups had pre-planned looting and destruction that hit the city over the weekend.

“We have learned of & discovered stashes of bricks and rocks in & around the Plaza and Westport to be used during a riot,” the department said in a tweet on Sunday.

As in most major cities across the U.S., protesters gathered in Kansas City over the weekend over the police-involved death of George Floyd. The 46-year-old black man died last Monday after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly 10 minutes during an arrest involving a non-violent incident.

What began as peaceful protests in many cities over the past several days has devolved into looting and rioting. Looters hit Kansas City’s Plaza, a high-end retail district, on Saturday and Sunday. (Read more from “Police: ‘Stashes’ of Bricks Staged Near Protests Were ‘to Be Used During a Riot'” HERE)

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Ex-Secret Service Agent: Riots Are ‘Sophisticated Insurrection’ by Antifa

By WND. The violence across the nation in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis is not merely an expression of outrage against an injustice, contends former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino.

It is a “very sophisticated” tactic being used to pursue an “insurrection.”

“Don’t you understand what is going on right now?” he asked in an interview Monday with “Fox & Friends.”

“This is not about George Floyd anymore. Gosh, I wish it was. We had a sincere moment of national unity where everyone agreed, even our police officers, that this was abhorrent. . .

Bongino said he’s been told “known Antifa leadership is there” organizing riots. (Read more from “Ex-Secret Service Agent: Riots Are ‘Sophisticated Insurrection’ by Antifa” HERE)

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Top Senators Blast Rogue Judge’s Refusal to Dismiss Flynn Case

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The actions of the rogue federal judge in the Michael Flynn criminal case are an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power that represent a “recipe for tyranny,” seven top senators, including the Senate Majority leader, told a federal court on Monday. In an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) blasted the refusal of Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to grant the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss charges against Flynn. Sens. Mike Braun (R-Indiana), Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Rick Scott (R-Florida), and Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) also signed the brief.

Sullivan’s actions violate the Constitution’s clear separation of powers on which branch of government may prosecute American citizens, the senators assert, citing the U.S. Constitution, quotes from Founding Fathers, and longstanding federal court precedent. According to the U.S. Constitution, the Executive Branch that houses the Department of Justice has the exclusive discretion to begin and to end a prosecution while the Judiciary has the power to decide cases or controversies. Just as the Executive cannot direct the Judiciary’s rulings, the Judiciary cannot direct the Executive’s prosecutorial decisions, the senators write.

No less than the former Chief Justice John Marshall described prosecutorial discretion as “‘an indubitable and a Constitutional power’ which permitted [the President] alone to determine . . . when to pursue and when to forego prosecutions,” the senators note, quoting the former chief justice from his time as a congressman. The senators reminded the court that Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 78 that “while the Executive ‘holds the sword of the community,’ the Judiciary ‘can take no active resolution whatever’ because it has ‘neither Force nor Will, but merely judgment.’” They quote James Madison in Federalist No. 47 that “[a]lthough individual liberty has ‘nothing to fear from the judiciary alone,’ it has ‘everything to fear’ from the union of the judicial and executive powers—which is a recipe for ‘tyranny.’” (Read more from “Top Senators Blast Rogue Judge’s Refusal to Dismiss Flynn Case” HERE)

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New Flynn Transcripts Confirm Mueller Team Lied to the Court and the Country

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office deceived the country and a federal court about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s late-December 2016 conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Now, more than three years later, Americans are only first learning about that deception thanks to the release of recently declassified transcripts of the calls.

Newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Friday shared with congressional oversight committees the summaries and transcripts of intercepted communications between Flynn and Kislyak. The move followed former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell’s decision to declassify nearly all portions of the Flynn-Kislyak telephone conversations from late 2016 and early 2017.

The transcripts prove a treasure trove of evidence of the Deep State’s plot to frame Flynn, who pleaded guilty Dec. 1, 2017, to making false statements to FBI agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka during a Jan. 24, 2017 interview of Flynn. In a “Statement of Offense” filed that same day with the D.C. District Court, federal prosecutor and Mueller team member Brandon Van Grack “stipulate[d] and agree[d]” that the facts detailed in the Statement of Offense were “true and accurate.”

Van Grack then attested in the Statement of Offense that Flynn knew that “on or about December 28, 2016, then-President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13757, which was to take effect the following day. The executive order announced sanctions against Russia in response to that government’s action intended to interfere with the 2016 presidential election (‘U.S. Sanctions’).” . . .

According to the Statement of Offense, during questioning by the FBI agents, “FLYNN falsely stated that he did not ask Russia’s Ambassador to the United States (‘Russian Ambassador’) to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed against Russia,” and “also falsely stated that he did not remember a follow-up conversation in which the Russian Ambassador stated that Russia had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of FLYNN’S request.” (Read more from “New Flynn Transcripts Confirm Mueller Team Lied to the Court and the Country” HERE)

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WATCH: Police Take a Knee with Protesters on Interstate 84; Police, Protesters Stop to Recite the Lord’s Prayer in Ohio

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By Breitbart. Police in Connecticut showed support for protesters of the death of George Floyd by taking a knee and condemning the violent actions that took his life.

Protesters in Hartford, Connecticut, took over part of Interstate 84 Monday evening as some were even lying down on the roadway in a protest of the death of Floyd in Minnesota.

WTNH News reported “hundreds” were peacefully protesting close to 6:00 p.m. on the highway. Many held signs and chanted, “black lives matter,” or “don’t shoot.”

Connecticut State Police showed support for the protesters as troopers knelt along with them.

(Read more from “WATCH: Police Take a Knee with Protesters on Interstate 84” HERE)

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Columbus Police March With Protesters

By ABC 6 News. On the fifth day of protesting in downtown Columbus, Police Chief Thomas Quinlan and other officers were among the crowd speaking and walking with protesters.

As he spoke with some protesters, others chanted “no justice, no peace.”

As police and protesters walked, Quinlan was asked if he considered walking with protesters earlier. He said earlier in the week there were too many people who wanted to cause damage and hurt people and hurt officers. He noted that the people involved in Monday night’s protests are not among those.

During the march, police and protesters stopped and knelt at High Street and Nationwide Boulevard to recite the Lord’s Prayer.

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It’s Time to Invoke the Insurrection Act

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“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” ~Ronald Reagan, July 31, 1968

What about the justice for the other 330 million Americans who didn’t participate in the murder of George Floyd? When will we get justice for all of the people rioters killed and maimed and property they destroyed over the weekend?

In many places in America you still can’t get a haircut, but you can go out and riot. In California, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, you can’t go to church, but you can riot with impunity and burn down lifelong dreams of business owners without facing jail time. One such riot led to the murder of a federal agent protecting a courthouse in Oakland. 11 Secret Service agents were taken to the hospital after trying to repel a mob near the White House.

This has become a federal issue. We’ve never seen such a perverse sense of “justice” in this country. The reason we have a federal government is to protect liberty when state governments are either inherently unable or unwilling to do so. There is no greater threat to liberty than violent mobs sacking every major and mid-sized city, destroying businesses, and beating innocent people to death. Just as George Washington did with the Whiskey Rebellion, Trump should have sent troops immediately to quell these rebellions and use deadly force to restore order. That this has gone so far with so much destruction reflects a failure of biblical proportions on the part of this government, especially when juxtaposed to the heavy hand used in crushing civil liberties for a voodoo strategy of “fighting” a virus.

During the Ferguson riots in 2014, Trump tweeted:

Then he was a private citizen. Now he is president. Yet now we have a Ferguson in dozens of cities. So what happened to candidate Trump, who drew a sharp contrast in 2016 by saying during a debate with Hillary Clinton, “Secretary Clinton doesn’t want to use a couple of words, and that’s law and order. And we need law and order. If we don’t have it, we’re not going to have a country.”

Ryan Girdusky reported that Jared Kushner and the other proponents of weak-on-crime policies have convinced Trump to take a more muted response for fear of ruining their plan to supposedly win some of the black vote:

Girdusky has a lot of sources in the White House and has covered the political civil war between those supportive of the MAGA agenda and Jared Kushner for quite some time. If his take is true, then Trump would be throwing away this election for nothing.

Trump should use the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was last invoked during the 1992 Rodney King Riots in LA. It’s time to use deadly force. George Washington sent in troops to quell the Whiskey Rebellions, which was much less violent and widespread than these acts of mass mob terrorism.

In response to the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania, Washington commanded, “All persons, being insurgents…to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes” and warned “all persons whomsoever against aiding, abetting, or comforting the perpetrators of the aforesaid treasonable acts.” That was the first use of federal force pursuant to Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, which tasks the federal government with guaranteeing states’ protection from domestic violence.

The show of force ended the rebellion with minimal life lost. Peace through strength.

Trump needs to understand, as Washington did, that absent the restoration of deterrence with the use of deadly force, this cancer will spread and more people will ultimately be killed. At its core, this is why we have a government. The fact that in the nation’s capital there could be an iconic church set on fire after authorities already were alerted to the rioting from the previous night (with 11 Secret Service agents hospitalized) is mystifying.

Next is the issue of prosecutions. It’s good that Trump has promised to designate ANTIFA a terrorist group, but he should treat all rioters as terrorists, regardless of their affiliation. He must prosecute all of the rioters under federal terrorism charges, as well as anti-insurrection laws, such as 18 U.S. Code § 2383, which prescribes federal punishment for anyone who “incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto.”

During his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention in the summer of 2016, Trump noted that “the most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens” and that “any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.”

“Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities,” said Trump in his Cleveland speech. “Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims. I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon, and I mean very soon, come to an end.”

How nostalgic that night was when the would-be president declared, “Our convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country.”

Well, Mr. President, those promises have come due more than you could have imagined at the time. That is the Donald Trump voters elected. (For more from the author of “It’s Time to Invoke the Insurrection Act” please click HERE)

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President Trump to Designate Antifa as a Terrorist Organization

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President Donald Trump declared on Sunday that Antifa would be designated as a terrorist organization. . .

On Saturday, Attorney General Bill Barr said that the riots across the U.S. have been “hijacked by violent radical elements,” notably “far-left extremist groups.”

“Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda,” Barr said in a statement. “In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by anarchistic and far-left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics, many of whom travel from out of state to promote the violence.” (Read more from “President Trump to Designate Antifa as a Terrorist Organization” HERE)

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